Hannity Wants You To Think Bergdahl’s Father Gave ‘Muslim Victory Call’ At The White House

The latest example of Sean Hannity’s extremism was on view tonight as he hosted two Islamophobes to blow the "secret Muslim" dog whistle “analyze” the comments of Bowe Bergdahl’s father in the Rose Garden last weekend, spoken in Pashto, in response to the news that his son had been freed. “Great American” Hannity used the segment to further his smear of the soldier and his family with the obviously ultimate goal of using them against President Obama.

Hannity announced at the beginning of the discussion that Bergdahl’s words translated to, “In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate.” Oh noes! Hannity also sneered that Bergdahl had grown a beard, then played a clip of the father sending a message in Arabic or Pashto to his son’s Taliban captors in 2011. However, Hannity generously forgave Bergdahl those earlier words because his son was still captive.

“So exactly what message was he trying to send?” Hannity asked Gabriel sinisterly. Then before she could answer, Hannity quoted another fave Islamophobe, Walid Shoebat. “What that father was saying in the Rose Garden - …Walid is suggesting he was declaring the Muslim victory call and then the president smiles when he does it, as soon as he hears. He (Shoebat) calls it the ‘war cry of Allah.’ Is that what that is, when he said that?”

“It is the war cry of Allah,” Gabriel agreed. She claimed Bergdahl didn’t know what he was saying but, she added, “throughout history, the Islamic history of 1400 years, every time Muslims conquered a place or a location, they would stand and… (declare) the greatness of Allah over that land.” According to Gabriel, “The Talibans and the Islamist radicals all throughout the world will perceive as a victory and a success over Allah, standing on the steps of the White House.”

Jasser hypothesized, “Ultimately, his father probably radicalized him.No different than the mother of the Boston bomber radicalized her son.” Not that Jasser offered a shred of evidence. Nor was he asked for any.

But Hannity seemed determined to promote the “war cry” meme. “Is it used by the radical Islamists as their war cry of Allah and do you think that the father is radicalized?” Hannity asked Gabriel.

“Osama bin Laden and the other radicals who pray in the name of Allah say the same exact prayers.” Gabriel assured him. Although she effusively praised Jasser’s patriotism, she pointedly cautioned, “The radicals who say the same prayers look at the religion itself very differently than Zuhdi does."

Of course, it’s quite possible – if not probable – that the father said the prayer in the same pro-American spirit. But Hannity was too eager to promote the other possibility to consider that. “And you think the father interpreted it that way and purposely said that in the Rose Garden and it was sending a message and the president – you could see the president smiling there as he says it,” Hannity prompted. Agan.

No, Gabrielle thought the father was saying words “he really did not understand, their ramification and the meaning behind these words and how the enemy will perceive these words.”

So, in the end, it was only Hannity promoting this “Muslim victory call makes President Obama smile” smear.

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ewwww. the liberals seem to be out in droves with their infactual rants and trolling. Well, after the failure of the 1960s hippy movement (which your parents couldn’t seem to have gotten over) and the failure of your Muslim president (Barack Hussein Obama is not an Icelandic name last I checked) liberalism and progressivism has issued it death rattle.

Since Joe Marsh is really “fair and balanced,” I must tell you Antoinette, that Slanthead Hannity has actually condemned the abuse by priests.

Not in the strongest terms, nor has he made it a topic by itself — instead always in some other context, but occasionally (on the radio), I’ve heard him express his feelings on the church scandal.

Of course this is a mere drop in the bucket (maybe 0.0001% of his time), compared to the effort he expends every single day of his pathetic life smearing, besmirching, trashing and LYING about Obama and every other liberal, as well as promoting his drill, frack and dig (for coal) plan which will quadruple the burning of fossil fuels, spewing carbon into the air, bring nuclear winter down on all the planet’s occupants (human and animal) within our lifetime, without a single missile launch! Am I wrong to suspect Hannocchio is on the Koch brothers’ payroll?

Bismi’llah al-rahman al-rahim is not a Muslim ‘victory cry’. Brigitte Gabriel, Zuhdi Jasser and others should know this. The phrase occurs at the head of every sura of the Qur’an but one. A victory cry, if there is one, might be Allahu akbar or al-hamdu li’llah. Of course Islam is supremacist, but there’s no reason to over-egg the pudding here.

The Catholic church is loaded with pedophile priests, but you are not going to hear a peep from this cafeteria Catholic “news” network.

The Stop Hannity Express encourages all the masses to revisit the pedophile priests in the Catholic church.

Start with these gems:

Fox “News” Silent On Pedophile Priests in the Catholic Church

Why Do Catholics At Fox “News” Refuse to Discuss Pedophile Priests?

Call radio shows, local and national, and begin the conversation with these remarks:

“Conservative media continually targets Muslims and their faith, yet I hear nothing about the numerous pedophile priests who have molested hundreds of innocent little children whose lives are now ruined. Why are they protecting pedophile priests?”

@joe Marsh: I agree with your first and especially your third points, but am curious to know how you think the President “should” have handled this matter. Especially as you admit (in your third point) that there’s absolutely nothing he could have done that would have been met by anything other than outrage by the RW and FNC.

So. Let me get this straight: 1) a man whose son is a POW and who dares to grow a beard is a taliban terrorist while another man with a very long beard whose son is not in captivity is not. 2) a father who will try everything in hope of seeing his POW son again, including learning the language of the captors, is a taliban terrorist while a father who does everything to keep his sons out of the military during wartime – and succeeds is not (if I’m not mistaken, Hannity, O’Reilly and a whole slew of other hosts on FNC are in the latter category).

I smell the smell of a mighty powerful double standard in this whole pitiful story.

The Bergdahl family has my own personal apology for the heinous acts being committed against them for the sole purpose of slamming the President of the USA. During wartime, to boot. Sheeeeeeeeesh. The RW in general and FNC in particular have truly reached the bottom of the barrel of sleaziness and despicability.

1) It may be a long time before we really know all the details about what happened.

2) However it turns out, it seems clear (to me, at least) that Obama could have handled this much better.

3) Totally irrespective of points 1 and 2, the right wing media slime (RWMS) — especially Slanthead Hannity — will milk this for every drop, as it proves once and for all that Obama is a “secret Muslim” who has no qualms about sacrificing American lives in order to destroy this country.

And the RWMS — especially Slanthead Hannity — will never, ever let up for a moment. There was a post a few days ago (that I didn’t get a chance to add my two cents about) reporting Bob Beckel telling everyone that it’s time to forget about Benghazi. Fat chance of that of that — they’ll be shrieking “BENGHAZI… BENGHAZI… BENGHAZI!!!” for years.

Now they have another “B” word: “BERGDAHL… BERGDAHL… BERGDAHL!!!”

Many of us will be in the grave by the time Hannocchio lets go of these slime themes. He’s worse than a pit bull with a fresh marrow bone!

Here’s a little quiz:

How many times a week (mostly on the radio) does Slanthead bring up “unrepentant terrorists” Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn? Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger?

How many times a week does Slanthead distort Michelle Obama’s “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country …”?

How many times a week does Slanthead bring up Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers and Kathleen Willey?

How many times a week does Slanthead do his pathetic imitation of Bill Clinton, “I didn’t have sex with that woman…”?

How many times a week does Slanthead play his heavily doctored audio clips, mostly all out of context? I wouldn’t put it past Hannocchio to claim he has an audio clip secretly recorded at a dinner where a sommelier is asking Hillary Clinton which vintage of Burgundy she prefers; “What difference does it make?”

I could on and on… but you get the point. And if you answered anything less than 5 times a week on any of these, you lose!

Ellen, if you get a chance, also watch the Dobbs “commentary” just before the half hour. It’s peculiar. After his typical long rant about the vileness of President Obama, he wraps up with an odd hint of— something. He’s been doing this a lot lately, teasing I guess about some opinion even he is hesitant to spell out about what motivates the president. But he seems to think his audience will know exactly what he’s talking about.